Ray Washburne, Mr. Christie's finance chairman, was just as confounded.
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The underwhelming gameplay is confounded by some baffling design choices.
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" Why it matters: "The rebound has confounded many experts' projections.
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But Faith was less than enthused; she was outright confounded.
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"I was confounded by it," Farrell says of the storyline.
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The drop confounded economists' expectations for an increase to 270,000.
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His case had confounded investigators for more than a decade.
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Mr. Shibayama said he was confounded by the government's position.
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It's a turn that has fascinated and confounded some observers.
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Ghosn's sudden arrival in Beirut shocked Japan and confounded authorities.
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Clearly, Britons confounded expectations and the betting markets once again.
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First, the administration is confounded by inexperience, incompetence and infighting.
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Once more, its critics may find themselves confounded and crestfallen.
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Her decision to vote "present" confounded at least one Democrat.
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They're terribly confounded, and can show only associations, not causation.
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Confounded, even alarmed, she asked me how I had done this.
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The appendix is an organ that has confounded scientists for centuries.
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Perhaps. But Mr Musk has confounded his critics time and again.
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Those market moves exemplify what has confounded financial prognosticators since Nov.
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And even the "presidential height index" may be confounded this year.
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But Lydia Millet's "Sweet Lamb of Heaven" confounded me, delightfully so.
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In many respects, 2017 has confounded even the most bullish forecasts.
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Politicians hoping for direction on Brexit may once again be confounded.
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He is not the only black conservative confounded by Mr. Trump.
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But zinc confounded the bulls several times on the way up.
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That calculus confounded old-school economists, who saw it as irrational.
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The protagonists are at once fascinated with and confounded by America.
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As for me, I'm still just as confounded by these youths.
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The concept of a Cabbage Patch Kid also confounded the artist.
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But the CDC had delayed testing for reasons that confounded them.
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They have confounded experts and have exhausted every hope save one.
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On Capitol Hill, Trump's rise has confounded most of the GOP.
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The left wing is confounded why all Democrats don't follow their lead.
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And some conservatives are confounded about what to say about this subject.
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It's a baffling question that has long confounded the criminal justice system.
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When she immigrated to the US in 2011, America confounded her expectations.
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North Korea has confounded some of the world's top diplomats for decades.
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The final political status of Jerusalem has confounded peace negotiators for decades.
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JaneMy boyfriend's parents were always really confounded that I was a vegetarian.
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That confounded forecasters who had predicted a drop of 3.5 million barrels.
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I brought home Western ideas that confounded my parents: sarcasm, irony, recalcitrance.
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The sudden drop confounded economists, which had forecast a 0.1 percent gain.
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Yet Alfonso winds up confounded by the stubborn complexity of human nature.
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Failure to understand this, means being confounded by today's seismic political shifts.
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ZERO-SUM Beyond the rhetoric, Trump's body language also confounded his hosts.
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The sudden drop confounded economists, which had forecast a 210.4 percent gain.
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In the process it played several highly creative moves that confounded experts.
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Mussina won his start in that series, but Martinez usually confounded him.
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Even some of the president's own advisers were confounded by his move.
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Wheels may give them some traction, but then are confounded by stairs.
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Two intermissions and a game-winning goal later, he was still confounded.
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But the other thing that gets confounded is trade and trade agreements.
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Spectators may have been pleasurably confounded by Mr. Resnais's "Last Year at Marienbad" (19203), an art-house hit when it opened in New York in March 1962, but the initial audience for "Muriel" appears to have been simply confounded.
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The rise in women who want so-called designer vaginas has confounded researchers.
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Trump confounded his own national security team with a surprise decision on Dec.
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He has confounded almost all the pundits and a majority of elected officials.
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Classified as "extremophiles," tardigrades have confounded and astounded scientists for over two centuries.
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The announcement confounded most economists' expectations for growth of about 1 per cent.
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The Republican president's unconstrained use of Twitter has confounded allies and skeptics alike.
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Then the fan proceeded to hump her and I am confounded by that.
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Its players, including the veterans, have confounded a previous stereotype by getting fit.
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For nearly three full rounds, Holloway confounded Pettis with his rangy striking attack.
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And everyone who attended seemed to come away feeling confronted, confounded, and delighted.
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The "October surprise" confounded leading Democrats who suddenly found themselves on the defensive.
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His unconventional tactics have confounded GOP leaders and strategists in Washington for months.
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The reading confounded expectations in a Reuters poll for a 0.3 percent drop.
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In the early days of parenting I pretended to be confounded by swaddling.
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Now clusters of new infections — some linked, some not — have confounded health officials.
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Analysts are confounded by what North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, really wants.
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As everyone knows, Churchill confounded his detractors and magnificently rose to the occasion.
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She is confounded when her classmate's father asks the same question of her.
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You remember claw machines, those confounded scams that bilked you out of your allowance.
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And if that weren't enough, the rise of social media further confounded USPS's problems.
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Biometric voting machines, installed in roughly 60% of polling stations, confounded many election workers.
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I was confounded by the lack of accountability "free" proffered to rapists and murderers.
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China's PMI confounded expectations of a slowdown, recording a four-month high of 51.4.
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Donald Trump's madcap march toward the Republican nomination has confounded nearly every political professional.
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That confounded the median expectation in a Reuters poll for a dip to 267.2.
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And pollsters are confounded by Colorado, where surveys have been all over the map.
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"He's confounded lots of people's expectations, my expectations, his expectations," Umunna told ITV television.
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She's consistently confounded her foes, and in particular, repeatedly outmaneuvered, outfoxed and outsmarted Trump.
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In the late 1980s, the region confounded the last Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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Mike Huckabee, seems just as confounded about his daughter as the hysterical, liberal left.
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This is what's taking over, the sickening vulgarism of the confounded and the polite.
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Early experiments to prove that animals have empathy were all confounded by this limitation.
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The nursing home's state-approved emergency plan was confounded by a foreseeable electrical failure.
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McGregor will be attempting to hit a target that has confounded even champion boxers.
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His lack of defense confounded Mendoza as much as his academics pleased his teachers.
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That confounded the median expectation in a Reuters poll for a dip to 256.2.
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The rapist is confounded and annoyed: He rapes to dominate women, not obey them.
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It once confounded the humor writer Alan Zweibel, so you are in excellent company.
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Rather, they are bothered by something that is often confounded with inequality: economic unfairness.
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I felt placed under a spell that confounded yet satisfied with the utmost perversion.
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Priscilla and I had the exact same reaction to this confounded concoction: "What the heck?"
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The Boring Company CEO Elon Musk seems to be confounded about what a tunnel is.
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The case of the Hillside Strangler confounded California police in the in the late 1970s.
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It was its highest level since August 3.83 and confounded market expectations for a slowdown.
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It was its highest level since August 2013 and confounded market expectations for a slowdown.
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Yet in another sense, the Fed has confounded predictions—at least, those it made itself.
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Core inflation (excluding food and energy) has long confounded the bank's expectations of a rise.
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What has confounded many experts is the speed at which his engineers are getting there.
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We're similarly confounded by the alien's ability to kill us, in one attack, from behind.
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The three topics listed above have confounded his predecessors and many bureaucrats within the Beltway.
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The rally has confounded expectations for a more prolonged sell-off prior to the referendum.
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Another tester dug into the Buffalo wings, but was immediately confounded by a technical difficulty.
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And in recent conversations, additional officials have confessed to being confounded by the president's strategy.
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This confounded Antetokounmpo in the first game of the series and made him modestly miserable.
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Mr. Trump's expectation that there is any honor among thieves has been confounded once again.
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Leading up to the vote, Mr. McCain, not untypically, had confounded both critics and admirers.
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Then there's Noah Syndergaard, who throws thunderbolts but has confounded Mets fans with his struggles.
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A year ago to the day, Fulmer confounded the Rangers in a four-hit shutout.
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The family is pleased—though Hiroshi is a little confounded: They had never discussed his work.
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The fall was the sharpest since January 2017 and confounded forecasts for a 0.3 percent increase.
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There he's confounded by the planet's culture and its androgynous inhabitants, who can shift between genders.
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WHEN Afghan lawmakers were debating rules of conduct for accountants, some were confounded by their strictness.
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Terrorists are confounded by old-fashioned, dogged police work and push-back by people on planes.
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It also confounded the forecasts in a Reuters survey for a rise of 260 million barrels.
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The researchers were confounded by the results, however, which were very different from the first study.
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But it was the girls, Susan, Patricia, and Leslie, who committed the murders and confounded America.
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Failing to understand this has confounded the treatment of pain, mental illness and addiction for decades.
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It was the very things that confounded her detractors that were most entrancing to the uninitiated.
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Mr. Trump's tendency to make unpredictable responses has confounded lawmakers who are counting on his support.
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"We're treating you the same," my parents insisted, confounded by any suggestion that they were traditional.
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Tina Barney's immense tableaus confounded viewers when they first made their appearance some 30 years ago.
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At one point, I told Connie and Goldberg that the psychology of revenge porn confounded me.
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They confounded OPEC by cutting costs and finding new ways to squeeze more oil from rock.
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Zero is something that even confounded early human civilizations, with some early numbering systems lacking the concept.
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It was the second straight week of gains and confounded economists' expectations for a drop to 2200,2000.
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Judging whether this change is the result of the industry's new approach is confounded by two factors.
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And so, the Celtics face a conundrum much like the one that confounded the Hawks before them.
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Moreover, his litigious rhetoric has confounded the traditional left-right paradigm over the issue of tort reform.
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I bet it's very individual-dependent, and confounded by many, many other factors in an individual's life.
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Mr. Trump's policy toward Turkey has confounded his fellow Republicans in Congress on a number of fronts.
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If all that sounds confusing, you're not alone: The theory has confounded scientists and laypeople for generations.
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In addition, these networks can provide support and advice to parents who are confounded, upset or isolated.
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May's decline was the largest since January 2016 and confounded economists' expectations for a 0.1 percent gain.
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May's decline was the largest since January 20.1 and confounded economists' expectation for a 20.6 percent gain.
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There was quicksand beneath Sour Spring Mound, and it confounded any attempt to bore a stable hole.
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May's drop was the largest since January 2016 and confounded economists' expectations for a 0.1 percent gain.
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A financial crisis can only bring more instability to a region that has confounded American policy makers.
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"I can appreciate his motivations, but I am confounded by his reasoning and his choices," Maraniss confesses.
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The staying power of Mr. Maduro's embattled government has confounded the international community, academics, analysts and journalists.
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At any time, the refugee is likely to be confronted—confounded—by the myopia of non-Vietnamese.
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Such presidential outbursts often confounded Mr. Spicer, who found himself reverting to standard Washington retorts to respond.
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French business activity confounded expectations in April by growing at the fastest pace in nearly six years.
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"I am confounded by the negotiating tactics of my fellow Democrats," Vela said in a January statement.
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The Times itself seemed confounded and issued a statement asking Trump for some clarity on the accusation.
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And I was both thrilled by that and confounded by the lack of diversity that I saw.
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Its unexpected chemical composition has confounded scientists for years, but a new theory may finally hold the answer.
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It was Mr Trump's performance in the electoral-college system, which decides the presidency, that confounded the polls.
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THE runaway pace of North Korea's nuclear development has confounded predictions and diverted the attention of world leaders.
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A surfeit of controversial incidents besieged the U.S. military and confounded official Washington as to what to do.
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His repeated claims that Obama and Clinton were the "co-founders" of ISIS had confounded Democrats and Republicans.
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However the epidemic, the most explosive on record in terms of its rapid spread, has continually confounded expectations.
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November's reading from the Federal Statistics Office confounded expectations in a Reuters poll for a 0.5 percent rise.
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But we chose to let someone else commercialize it, because its expansive powers and potential liability confounded us.
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She was given next to no chance of winning but confounded the champ with her convincing feinting ability.
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It's a question that has confounded party leaders, individual candidates, outside groups and activists across the liberal spectrum.
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In Syria, the problem of ending the war against ISIS is confounded by the U.S. intent to withdraw.
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She got into hot water once again with this Instagram, as people were confounded by her bizarre proportions.
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That response confounded analysts Friday: The government will merely revert to a strategy that has so far failed.
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The Trump phenomenon has consistently confounded pollsters, so if there's one candidate who could make history, it's him.
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Back in the day, people looking for Osento on a similarly soupy afternoon were probably just as confounded.
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Carrie Bradshaw may have been quite familiar with her laptop, but she was still confounded when it crashed.
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If you're a millennial woman who dates, the odds are high that you've also been confounded by this.
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I was confounded when I first began moderating comments on opinion columns and Op-Ed pieces in 2007.
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But I found plenty to enjoy here, and I was never once confounded by what was happening onscreen.
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Observational data can be very confounded, meaning that unmeasured factors might be the actual cause of the harm.
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This has confounded many analysts because investors normally buy government debt and precious metals in times of uncertainty.
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Entanglement confounded Einstein because of the way it seems to instantly send information faster than the speed of light.
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Sanders confounded the notion that the end of the state primary races would mean the end of his campaign.
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Sooronbay Jeenbekov confounded expectations by securing enough votes to win Kyrgyzstan'spresidential election in the first round, beating Omurbek Babanov.
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The move confounded traders, according to Reuters reports, given that no news directly impacting the company had been reported.
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Actor Evan Rachel Wood, who plays the android host Dolores Abernathy, is sometimes just as confounded as we are.
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Even the 4% rule – whereby you withdraw at that rate during each year of retirement — can leave people confounded.
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His manic style amused generations of moviegoers on both sides of the Atlantic, and his popularity often confounded critics.
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While Diana is confounded by many aspects of the human world, what puzzles her the most is women's fashion.
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And we know that there's a big issue in this work where poverty and class is confounded with race.
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But look at the beach photos on the resort's website and you are sure to be confounded and disappointed.
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The ever-evolving circumstances of diplomatic relations with countries like Yemen and Iran have confounded American presidents for centuries.
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Nonetheless, many mainstream conservatives continue to be confounded by the GOP having a clear, discernible and persistent race problem.
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Clinton, who often says she always expected the race to be close, has appeared confounded by the tight polls.
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On Thursday, Democrats, former diplomats and some Republicans seemed confounded that the White House would even consider the idea.
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Many studies have relied on self-reports, and childhood outcomes are confounded by many other factors such as parenting.
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But in May, Trump reversed course and vowed to protect ZTE jobs in China — an announcement that confounded lawmakers.
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Ellison was an eccentric bastard who frustrated his friends, confounded his enemies, and eschewed popularity in favor of credibility.
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The Red Bulls jumped all over their confounded opponents from the start, scoring three goals by the 41st minute.
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The message, it seems, is that everyone is confounded by spiritual issues and that we're all in this together.
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One vehicle after another pulled into the empty parking lot and idled, the occupants confounded by the " closed " sign.
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GOP lawmakers are nervous Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are confounded and angry that Trump has brought Bannon on.
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Her embrace of those things confounded me, a proper feminist raised to eschew princess paraphernalia and question the patriarchy.
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The price, given by an American collector, momentarily confounded market perceptions that prewar cars had fallen out of fashion.
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Additionally, particularly early in your career, the offer of employment and the terms of the offer are often confounded.
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Even in a city well accustomed to costly real estate, the price spiral has confounded the most experienced observers.
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The degree of uncertainty, lingering even at this final stage of the precaucus season, has confounded some Democratic officials.
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You may find yourself championing its subjects even while feeling confounded by the omission of details by its filmmaker.
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The question of how to best protect transgender women in immigration detention has confounded federal authorities for some time.
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But the declaration confounded many in the region who interpreted the president's orders as the definition of a retreat.
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That confounded forecasts for a 0.2 percent rise and came after an upwardly revised increase of 0.2 percent in March.
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That study, many have noted, measured a fairly small increase in depression and could have been confounded by other factors.
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Images of a mountain lion killed in southeastern Idaho on December 30 has confounded viewers, due to an odd deformity.
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To be honest with you, I think the broader health policy community is a little confounded about What This Means.
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The rise in like-for-like sales confounded market expectations of another fall as retailers battled for customers over Christmas.
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The drop in crude has confounded portfolio managers who had bet on a stabilisation last March, when prices briefly rallied.
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The exports figure confounded expectations for a 1.0 percent rise while imports beat a forecast for a 2.33 percent increase.
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The exports figure confounded expectations for a 1.0 percent rise while imports beat a forecast for a 1.1 percent increase.
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Most of them seem confounded by the fact that discussing the latest Noah Baumbach movie can't count as gym credit.
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It has confounded policy makers, so movie stars and pop singers can hardly be expected to have done any better.
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After all, across three generations of Kim family despots, North Korea has confounded world leaders and almost every American president.
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I'm always confounded that they come to a pizza place called Ranch but they've never heard of ranch on pizza.
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He went to the school's website and was confounded by the pictures of students throwing water balloons at one another.
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So I was confounded by Tayari Jones's suggestion that Mandela's letters would "rock the pedestal" on which he is placed.
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Barry's and Helena's stories do eventually collide, but the journey is a gloriously twisting line that regularly confounded my expectations.
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The disappearance of the submarine had confounded experts and had drawn attention to the dilapidated state of Argentina's armed forces.
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Scott describes the many ways that cultures embracing wilder landscapes at home have avoided and confounded the would-be empires.
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Klinsmann also routinely played players away from their most comfortable positions, a strategy that confounded fans and rankled his players.
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Dictators, denied complete control of the information flow, are confounded in whatever domestic or international mischief they may be contemplating.
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Mr. Corbyn, by contrast, confounded all expectations with an aggressive campaign that featured enthusiastic crowds at packed open-air rallies.
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Pompeo's constant dalliances with a potential run for Senate in Kansas in 2020 have also confounded people in the building.
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Coroner was just as heavy as their contemporaries, but their twisted sense of rhythm confounded any attempts at traditional headbanging.
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But as AP Washington bureau chief Julie Pace reports, Democrats are "really confounded" by what to expect from Florida next year.
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There are no easy answers, and this situation has confounded presidents and skilled national security officials from both parties for years.
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What we're reading: ProPublica's deep dive into a case in which a mistaken identity confounded a family's end-of-life choices.
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So even if I disagree with a lot of things Cody is saying… a lot of what he said confounded me.
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One common exhibition strategy was the juxtaposition of styles across related forms, which confounded the binary between contemporary and customary art.
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These problems may have confounded other states and the federal government, but I know New York must and can address them.
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Where were you when Donald J. Trump confounded pundits and upended projections to become the President-Elect of the United States?
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A village in India was confounded over the weekend when a mysterious 22-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky.
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Audio media on the internet has confounded people for years because there isn&apost the same all-consuming hub like YouTube.
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He has confounded opponents by building up huge grassroots support and winning endorsements from defecting center-left and center-right politicians.
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It signifies change, both musically and mentally while also revisiting influences that confounded our interest in music in the first place.
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There is evidence to suggest that the observed benefits of breastfeeding are confounded by other parenting factors, such as socioeconomic status.
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Here's the full letter: August 15, 2017 Benchmark Partners, Many investors and shareholders are confounded by Benchmark's behavior regarding Uber Technologies.
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When Comey closed the inquiry nine days later, we were confounded because the evidence of Clinton's wrongdoing is stronger than ever.
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Severed foot mystery A gruesome mystery that has confounded British Columbia for more than a decade just got a new chapter.
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He has confounded opponents by building up huge grassroots support and winning endorsements from defecting centre-left and centre-right politicians.
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Even Western powers are struggling to confront the Salafi jihadists because they are confounded by the unconventional nature of the threat.
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When the ride opened, this special effect confounded all who saw it—even magicians, who should have known better, were fooled.
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Or the forecast can be confounded by some external event; a collapse (or surge) in the price of oil, for example.
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I feel solace in having my vision confounded by her exact knowledge: There exists so much more than I had apprehended.
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Jones touches inconclusively on a mystery that has confounded every journalist, historian and prosecutor who has delved into the "whodunit" details.
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He confounded expectations by continuing to breathe unaided for days, but died in the early hours of Saturday, his parents said.
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" When corporate money influences nutrition science, Dr. Popkin said, the evidence of what is healthy for people "gets obscured, gets confounded.
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"There is a hint of familiarity but at the same time the expectations of space and gravity are confounded," she explains.
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Even amid the controversy created by the kneeling protests, Reid's exclusion from the league had confounded many, most of all Kaepernick.
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Named after Alois Alzheimer, the neuropathologist who discovered the disease in 1906, it has so far confounded researchers and pharmaceutical companies.
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Beckham's trade is just one of several recent purges of the team's roster that have left many fans confounded and angry.
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He introduced Nixon with a long, boring speech and then asked the confounded candidate to talk about the International Monetary Fund.
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Despite widespread anger over economic hardship, the Socialist Party confounded opinion polls to take 17 of 23 governorships in Sunday's election.
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The space has confounded expectations storage capacity limits could be reached, which the IEA initially warned of more than a year ago.
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Rain overnight had increased fears of delays, but rescuers have again confounded expectations by recovering the boys faster than anyone had anticipated.
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The logic becomes even more confounded when Mr Lessig explains why electors this time around should cast their votes for Hillary Clinton.
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But the results provide researchers with their first biological handle on an ancient disorder whose cause has confounded modern science for generations.
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But movement was ponderous, gestures were awkward, and my left hand kept disappearing, apparently because my wedding ring reflection confounded uSens' sensors.
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Trump, who considers himself a master dealmaker, has confounded aides and allies at every turn of the fateful flirtation with the North.
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That's the number of Americans now counted as not in the labor force, a historic high that has confounded economists and policymakers.
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Traditionally conservative Colombian voters, in favor of peace in principle but unhappy at perceived soft treatment for the guerrillas, confounded those forecasts.
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But something appears to be wrong as hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have recently washed ashore in southern Japan, leaving scientists confounded.
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The world is now confounded by these mixed messages broadcast from various members of the national security team and the President himself.
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Below is the letter, as obtained by Axios: Benchmark Partners,Many investors and shareholders are confounded by Benchmark's behavior regarding Uber Technologies.
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Cumberbatch has spent hundreds of hours playing an icy genius confounded by the emotions and icky feelings of the people around him.
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Both continue unabated to this day, if this three-year-old Reddit thread of confounded DBZ fans is anything to go by.
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I wanted to explore a world outside of myself and moved on to another topic, which had confounded me… the male species.
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Pacquiao knocked Thurman down in the opening round, confounded the American with his incredible energy, and bloodied his face with relentless punching.
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"The relative risks associated with modern [particulate matter] are very small and confounded by many factors," he wrote in a 2004 study.
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On October 29, sterling tanked as much as 6 percent, leaving traders confounded and scrambling for reasons as to why it sank.
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Like citizens of most other countries, Japanese are confounded by America's rash of mass shootings, as foreign an epidemic as bubonic plague.
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The attack occurred nearly a month after President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team with a surprise decision on Dec.
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Opinion polls shortly before the election suggested Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton would capture the White House, but looked set to be confounded.
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Last week, he confounded Republicans again by backing away from his endorsement of a bipartisan Senate proposal to stabilize health insurance markets.
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E. C. Matthews led Rhode Island with 21 points, but the Rams looked confounded at times by Duke's much-improved zone defense.
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It seemed like Spicer was confounded as to why an independent media would not prop up the administration's line up of propaganda.
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He was also confounded by the report's mockery of the department's crackdowns on dice games, a frequent target of robberies and shootings.
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The problem is often confounded hundreds of times when these spurious study results are cited over and over again by other researchers.
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But even if they did, Trump's victory on Tuesday night in Nevada would have confounded even the most delusional practitioner of Trumpmatics.
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On some matters new judgments are reached, on others old ones are confirmed, and on occasion he remains as confounded as ever.
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And there may also be a few games sprinkled in like Sunday's, when Cespedes will do things that leave Mets fans confounded.
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He seemed to me then an emissary of Libya's morass and an emblem of the tangled loyalties that had confounded America's policy.
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The drop in spending confounded a median market forecast for a 0.3 percent gain and followed a 1.9 percent rise in January.
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Compatriot Mathilde Gremaud won silver, while Britain's Isabel Atkin took the bronze in a final that had confounded many pre-competition predictions.
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Breakingviews European lenders' end-of-year fines for troubled mortgage securities have confounded market expectations and left a clear winner: Deutsche Bank.
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And as their relationship grows, he finds himself further confounded by this astonishing man he'd written off as a corny children's entertainer.
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EditorsNote: fixes "Dean" in third graf Nobody had confounded and confused Oklahoma's Trae Young quite the way Kansas State did Tuesday night.
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Two years ago, this genre-blending company confounded and elated downtown audiences with "MDLSX," a mixed-media meltdown of gender-specific identity.
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The answers bridge decades of research across geology, economics, and social science, which have been confounded by uncertainty and obscured by jargon.
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But for every Posty fan, there seem to be even more people confounded by the idea that he has fans at all.
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Oil prices were supported as larger-than-expected fall in U.S. stockpiles data from the American Petroleum Institute confounded worries about supply shortage.
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She seemed confounded by the argument that the administration had the power to interfere with union negotiations that are protected under federal law.
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On October 17th the prime minister confounded his critics by wringing a new withdrawal agreement out of his fellow EU leaders in Brussels.
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That trade war between the world's two largest economies has hurt markets worldwide and confounded U.S. allies, including Japan and the European Union.
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After two days in Rationality House, I was feeling strung out, overwhelmed by the relentless interaction and confounded by the workshop's obfuscatory jargon.
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That trade war between the world's two largest economies has hurt markets worldwide and confounded U.S. allies, including Japan and the European Union.
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Scoring early primaries is hard, as the question of who is winning is easily confounded with the question of who is beating expectations.
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In all but one instance, weekly data have either showed a bigger-than-expected drop in stockpiles or confounded forecasts for a rise.
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The 5T can handle the total lack of light, but it seems to be confounded by the cycling lights of an entertainment venue.
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The Bank of Japan, meanwhile, confounded markets by opting to increase its purchases of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), while leaving interest rates unchanged.
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A rosy past, a future brimming with potential This dilemma is further confounded by the way our brains process the experience of happiness.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Rubik's Cube has delighted and confounded millions of players since Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik created it in 1974.
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If one of the pleasures of dance is being confounded or disoriented by choreographic structures, this is not an element of McNamara's work.
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So what are Trump's options and how could his administration approach a conflict that has confounded experts since it began six years ago?
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"Once outside, the plaintiffs were bleeding, bruised, dazed, confounded, scared, in shock, terrorized and completely blindsided by what just occurred," the lawsuit claims.
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Thiel's support for Trump has confounded an industry that has has been working to improve the gender and racial diversity of its workforce.
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Regulators and investors are unwilling to rule out any surprises following the Brexit and U.S. presidential votes last year which confounded pollsters' expectations.
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Despite his firebrand reputation, he later confounded liberal supporters in 1982 by joining the conservative United Malays National Organization (UMNO) led by Mahathir.
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But the known unknowns of price forecasting aren't enough to explain why U.S. growth has confounded banks, the International Energy Agency, and consultancies.
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I'm confounded how to explain to my two children why a wealthy society allows its most vulnerable citizens to languish on the streets.
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Both figures confounded expectations in a Reuters poll that had pointed to exports edging down 0.3 percent and imports rising by 0.2 percent.
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But Trump's argument — that he's immune from being investigated in the first place — has confounded legal and constitutional scholars and even sitting judges.
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In December, Trump confounded his own national security team and international allies with a surprise decision to withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.
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Confounded and concerned, his doctors finally implanted a chip in his chest to collect data, to try to figure out what was wrong.
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And Republicans are confounded that the White House hasn't withdrawn Jackson's nomination after whistleblowers came to the Veterans' Affairs Committee with the charges.
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If a trait is confounded by environmental and cultural factors, the two tests will have different results, which is exactly what Harpak saw.
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Since 2011, though, Google Brain has demonstrated that this approach to artificial intelligence could solve many problems that confounded decades of conventional efforts.
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He has confounded political analysts and continues to pose novel challenges to the US political system, stretching America&aposs democracy to its limits.
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I was also mystified by that "N" and "Q" for the "H" and "J" that probably confounded at least a few other people.
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"Party loyalty really was scrambled to a greater degree than usual," Mr. Lauderdale said, citing one of several factors that have confounded pollsters.
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The studio was skeptical, but the movie — released in 1949 and now on Blu-ray — confounded expectations with its commercial and critical success.
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"Winter" (1969) — which announces itself as a film in "the form of a fugue" — is more complex in its representation of confounded characters.
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The lack of growth in U.S. manufacturing, reported on Thursday by the Federal Reserve, confounded analyst expectations for a 0.3 percent monthly gain.
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However, the most recent flare-up in Liberia confounded scientists as it was not initially clear where the new cases had come from.
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It did not have a name, and it confounded scientists: Every time they encountered the plant, the sex of its flowers had changed.
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Reality has confounded both expectations, with Trump displaying no hidden depths whatsoever, even as life continues to be basically fine for most people.
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Pretty much everyone was confounded by it, but once our judges figured out the proper way to use it, they wouldn't stop praising it.
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According to a report in The Information, Waymo's most advanced vehicles are still occasionally confounded by certain traffic situations, such as unprotected left turns.
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But the massive, spermy problem has long confounded scientists, who couldn't figure out why such a tiny creature needed such humongous baby batter soldiers.
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Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey has often confounded viewers searching for an easy explanation; the film doesn't provide a structured narrative or dramatic cues.
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But his decision to delve into the Alabama Senate Republican primary and offer a half-hearted endorsement of the perceived establishment candidate confounded some.
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People reacted to the closure the same way they did when Twitter purchased the "video clip company" before its official launch: They were confounded.
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He has confounded observers by declining to say he'll step aside, and based on recent propaganda, he may indeed be planning to stick around.
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But in some respects, Ms. Bjorgen's training also confounded expectations about how young athletes progress and what human beings, including women, are capable of.
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Any one of them would take years to fully understand, but together, they have confounded even the most seasoned professional's ability to anticipate politics.
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The bombing occurred nearly a month after President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team and allies with a surprise decision on Dec.
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However, it has confounded expectations among some shareholders that the company would pursue smaller acquisitions in Europe and could even return cash to investors.
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Trump has vehemently denied all accusations of collusion, but he's also confounded allies and opponents alike with his frequent praise of the Russian strongman.
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Wealth Matters There is one thing analysts can agree on about the year that is coming to a close: 2016 confounded predictions and expectations.
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"The January renewals have unfortunately confounded the hopes of commentators that the market was reaching a pricing floor," Willis Re Chief Executive John Cavanagh said.
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Tax authorities are often confounded by startups, says Con O'Donnell, who started Sarmady, an Egyptian online-media company, which he sold to Vodafone in 2008.
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Yes, like all of us, Berners-Lee is confounded with the problem of online communication and social bubbles creating a ripe landscape for false information.
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This simple strategy has confounded regional powers and driven them to give North Korea billions of dollars in return for Pyongyang's repeated pledges of denuclearization.
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The surge, up 20 percent in a year, has confounded buyers who have waited in vain for prices to fall, as they have done previously.
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Domestic punters, he added, were confounded by the PBOC's "extremely confusing" policy actions and, as a result, were pulling their money out of Chinese markets.
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A recent CNN/ORC Poll shows that both Democratic candidates would do well against Trump in the general election, but Trump has confounded expectations before.
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The plan's sinuous path has confounded Mr. French, the assistant director of the State Division of Fisheries and Wildlife's Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program.
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Maybe this particular pair of multimillionaires hears the parents and grandparents who are confounded by college price tags that seem to start at six figures.
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Whatever the museum's board members thought they were getting with Britain's first female leader of a national arts collection, I suspect their expectations were confounded.
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So if you were confounded by the way the third (and perhaps last-ever) "Twin Peaks" season wrapped up last night ... well, call it tradition.
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Jackson was challenged and confounded into a dreadful performance as Los Angeles built a commanding lead and held on to upset the Ravens, 23-231.
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Green is a secular Jew, confounded by what that even means, while Marlon sings in the choir in a storefront church near the Roxbury border.
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When it comes to implementing what is needed for this country, being tough should not be confounded with a need to be aggressive and confrontational.
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Reporters covering Trump have been confused and confounded by the question of where they stand in relation to him; their subject, in contrast, never is.
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In Texas, confounded by the lack of testing equipment, prosecutors began dropping some marijuana charges over the summer, unsure what substance they were dealing with.
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Lafite confounded the naysayers, as a tough reporting trip undertaken by this correspondent, for a tasting and tour with the Rothschilds at la propriété, confirmed.
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Holmes does not so much resurrect five highly original women as explore how and why they have confounded (seduced, traduced and plainly exhausted) their chroniclers.
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"Most reefs in the Caribbean are so heavily influenced by human impact that the climate signal and the stewardship signal are totally confounded," Kaufman tells me.
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The memory of Britain's referendum on European Union membership in late June - when the vote to leave confounded the polls - is still fresh in investors' minds.
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Look at the NFL, where the debate over the catch rule continues to dominate the league, and where referees continued to be confounded by its complexities.
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Retail sales also confounded market expectations, rising 10.1 percent in August on-year, the slowest pace in six months and cooling from 10.4 percent in July.
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So with stocks down a quick 22014 percent in a week in a way that confounded the crowd, which direction is the "pain trade" from here?
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Economists have been confounded by a dearth of corporate investment in the economy for years, since high profits and low interest rates should encourage more investment.
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When astronomers first observed it overhead in the 18th century, McNaught confounded them because it had not one, but six tails spread out across the sky.
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Yet his overall strategic ambiguity and a lack of rigidity in foreign affairs presents an opportunity to solve problems which have confounded successive American presidential administrations.
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"The IOC's track record since the release of the McLaren Report has only confounded the global anti-doping system," said iNADO's chief executive Joseph de Pencier.
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Since then, the results of the military operation and diplomatic maneuvering have not only confounded early critics but also outdone even President Vladimir Putin's own expectations.
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Volatility from on-again/off-again Chinese pork purchases driven by the ebbs and flows of the trade war has confounded strategic planning by individual business.
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The switchboards confounded him, the girls had not been girls for a long while, and the office walls were stained brown from decades of cigarette smoke.
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Month after month, the crews braved mountainous seas and loneliness to answer a mystery that has confounded the globe, with little to show for their efforts.
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The president recently confounded environmentalists with a series of tweets arguing California's environmental policies are making the state's raging wildfires worse, an argument scientists have dismissed.
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Mr. Caspersen's tale has confounded Wall Street, where he was known and liked, blending in with many of his associates who came from well-heeled backgrounds.
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Even Trump's top allies on Capitol Hill were confounded as to why he had picked a fight with Ryan, who faces a primary challenge next week.
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The vacancies have concerned national security experts, frustrated lawmakers and confounded foreign diplomats, who say they no longer have a point of contact at Foggy Bottom.
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Given the devastation he caused, what confounded Ms. Martinez as she observed Mr. Roof was his boyishness and his slight 5-foot-9, 120-pound frame.
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In a 1936 experiment by the chemist H. C. Moir, subjects were confounded when presented with orange jellies dyed green and vanilla cakes that resembled chocolate.
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" Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as "tribal group-thinking.
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But I've never wanted to champion a game as much as Outer Wilds, which confounded me, surprised me, and left me standing in awe and wonder.
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The interest in white pantsuits in particular has certainly confounded expectations — especially as we usually see a seasonal dip for white color ways across every category.
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Yet this shared strength has only further confounded members of the party's left wing who are hung up on the same question: How does it end?
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Conservative leaders had taken the base for granted for so long that, when Trump burst into the race, in the summer of 2015, they were confounded.
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There have been some gatherings, but relatively few and drawing only a few hundred at a time, a lack of interest that has confounded many residents.
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If you've been utterly confounded by the particular manner in which this seemingly innocuous tie-in has somehow careened into a national crisis, you're not alone.
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The bot had played a move that confounded established theories of the board game, in a moment that came to epitomize the mystery and mastery of AlphaGo.
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Annual GDP rose by a still-respectable 203 percent to A$220 trillion ($230 trillion), but confounded expectations in a Reuters poll for a 20030 percent increase.
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Until his retirement last year, Justice Anthony Kennedy, named by President Ronald Reagan, often confounded categorization as he supported abortion rights, gay marriage and some affirmative action.
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But investors were still mindful of the precedent of Britain's referendum on EU membership in June, which confounded the polls by delivering a shock vote for Brexit.
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Retail sales also confounded market expectations, rising 10.1 percent in August from a year earlier, the softest in six months and cooling from 10.4 percent in July.
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That confounded forecasters who had predicted a drop of 21.8 million barrels, especially a day after data from the American Petroleum Institute indicated an even bigger fall.
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But the ever-evolving requirements have confounded bank executives and shareholders, who complain that the regulations are making it impossible for the banks to generate consistent profits.
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But investors are mindful of the precedent of Britain's referendum on EU membership in June, which confounded the polls by delivering a vote in favour of quitting.
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France is not the only country with such a restriction; security experts say facial-recognition scanners at airports can be confounded by open mouths or unusual expressions.
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"I'm just confounded that this is what Secretary Clinton is actually going to tell the American people after she's so scarce," Kellyanne Conway said Thursday on CBS.
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The questions it raises—why the growth spurt happened, how it happened, what (if anything) occurred beforehand—have confounded cosmologists since the theory emerged in the 22s.
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For Trump, Tuesday's speech and the ensuing flurry of diplomacy presents an opportunity to more fully articulate a global agenda that has confounded allies and foes alike.
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Although the markets recovered their losses quickly, the event rattled investors and confounded authorities, who charged Mr. Sarao five years later with the help of an informant.
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Annual GDP rose by a still-respectable 23.5 percent to A$1.8 trillion ($1.32 trillion), but confounded expectations in a Reuters poll for a 3.3 percent increase.
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The speed and scale at which U.S. shale production has bounced back from the slump in 2015/2000 has confounded OPEC and all the other major forecasters.
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Instead he went full throttle into his role as the president's cable-news consigliere, giving interviews so erratic and illogical that even Fox News has been confounded.
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court once again took on a question that has long confounded it: What qualifies as an impermissible establishment of religion under the Constitution?
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That's the index's best start to a year since 1987, and one that has confounded those who anticipated that 2019 would be a difficult time for stocks.
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A deep-blue Democrat who managed Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, Ms. Brazile has confounded expectations by taking a role at President Trump's favorite cable news channel.
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" • "That's the index's best start to a year since 12, and one that has confounded those who anticipated that 330 would be a difficult time for stocks.
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But just like the team whose record they broke — the 1997 Seattle Mariners — the Yankees went bust in the division series, confounded by a solid pitching staff.
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Of course, animal studies, which aren't as easily confounded as observational studies, have clearly shown that early-life stress can change how animals' bodies work in adulthood.
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In the American air operations center at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and at the Pentagon, confounded military officers and intelligence analysts watched the scene unfold.
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Two years later he confounded some supporters when he vetoed a bill that would have given Idaho one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the nation.
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Since its release, no pop album has confounded like ANTI, which at first blush felt aimless, stuck in some weird static place between the mainstream and underground.
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Also in 2007, in a finding that confounded many at the time, including us, we ranked New Jersey's quality of life as the best in the nation.
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The Pour When Eric Hiatt, a litigator in New York, ate recently at Italienne, a new restaurant in Chelsea, he was confounded by what did not happen.
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He knows that when patients finally reach his office, they have probably passed through multiple layers of the medical system which has been confounded by their symptoms.
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Ryan Murphy banked a 3-pointer to pull Pitt within 24-19 with 5:55 left in the first half, but Syracuse's zone continually confounded the Panthers.
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In another recent instance that privately confounded Republican lawmakers, the White House recruited multiple Republican senators to block attempts to pass legislation formally recognizing the Armenian genocide.
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ECB President Mario Draghi confounded the expectations of many in markets when he said after the bank's last meeting that policymakers had not discussed extending its scheme.
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Still others argue that it's perfectly acceptable to have confounded right and wrong throughout one's life and that there's not a sliver of difference between the two.
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Illustration: Nobumichi TamuraThe conditions under which early lifeforms originated and exploded into the many animal groups we see today is a mystery that has confounded scientists for decades.
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Known as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), these pulses have confounded scientists since they were first discovered a decade ago by astronomers using the Parkes radio dish in Australia.
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For a disruptive company, this is oddly like a traditional informercial, complete with people confounded by something as simple as bringing a tote bag to a farmer's market.
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Sea Cliff also confounded the expectations of Moses Nadel, 41, who thought Long Island was too "flashy" after he visited Syosset, where his wife, Lara, 40, grew up.
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But the structural problems that have so confounded African carriers—poor infrastructure, endemic graft and political interference—will not magically disappear when executives from Addis Ababa fly in.
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Donald Trump confounded the experts who all predicted that he would likely lose the presidential election and stormed into the presidency with an amazing win against all odds.
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The British prime minister confounded expectations— given her party's dismal result in this year's election—by saying she intends to stay in office to fight the next one.
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That confounded forecasters who had predicted a drop of 225 million barrels, especially a day after preliminary data from the American Petroleum Institute indicated an even bigger drop.
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But it was Pernkun's defeat of Prajanchai last week that ended a 14-month period of high profile robberies that confounded expectations and rejuvenated the Bangkok boxing scene.
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When the New York band, Suicide, arrived on the scene in the early 70s, audiences were rather confounded by their mixture of confrontational music, performance, and sound art.
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The result was in striking contrast to Sotheby's contemporary sale the night before, when a selling rate of 95 percent and a total of $242.2 million confounded doomsayers.
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But he and his longtime loyalists are confounded about what has happened in their party, and by how little appeal the Bush brand of politics carries these days.
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Like the tech stocks, health care stocks have also confounded investors when it comes to the parts of their businesses tied to Medicare, Medicaid and other insurance policies.
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But it confounded many others who wondered why a spokeswoman for an organization known for fierce advocacy of gun rights would weigh in on programming aimed at preschoolers.
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Since its birth less than a decade ago, the party has confounded Europe's establishment and promoted itself as an internet-based insurgent party that could change Italy's politics.
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Most of these men remain confounded by their capture by the Americans, dubious that U.S. officials had the authority to arrest them and to lock them in prison.
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Roberts has equally confounded liberals seeking regular replays of his 2012 decisive vote (with the justices on the left) to uphold the Barack Obama-sponsored Affordable Care Act.
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The show has confounded critics and audiences since it opened, in November, but its songs—sailors fighting in the dance hall, children immune to your consultations—are familiar.
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Mr. Trump has confounded Democrats and Republicans alike with his repeated praise for the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, and his desire to forge an American-Russian alliance.
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Dererk Pardon added 11 for the Wildcats (19-513, 8-4 Big Ten), who confounded the conference-leading Badgers by double-teaming the dominant big man Ethan Happ.
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"My students at Yale—the poster children for meritocracy—are more nearly overwhelmed and confounded by their apparent blessings than complacent or even just self-assured," he writes.
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When Dr. Rogers' team was confounded by surprising results from a stream near their campus, they realized they had probably had detected DNA from the nearby Calgary Zoo.
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Even admirers remain confounded by how little he seems to participate in the life of the city — at once the perk and the obligation of its chief executive.
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Even admirers remain confounded by how little he seems to participate in the life of the city — at once the perk and the obligation of its chief executive.
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Many Twitter users were equally confounded by the monstrous chicken, with some saying that the video was fake or that the chicken is actually a human in disguise.
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"We're getting more extreme weather for fire, and there are more people on the landscape," he added, noting that the problem is confounded by people moving into fire country.
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After she was born in 2009, her bewildering list of symptoms—weak muscles, difficulty eating, failure to thrive, liver damage, dry eyes, poor sleep—confounded every doctor she encountered.
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In December, Trump confounded his own national security team with a surprise decision to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, declaring that Islamic State had been defeated there.
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Although political craft often includes cherry-picking facts and battles with straw men, Trump far exceeds the norm and has confounded analysts and pundits who try to assess him.
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While he confounded most analysts by consolidating blue collar votes in previously Democratic Midwestern states on Election Day, he has done little to bring the country together since then.
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That changed as soon as I walked into Greene Naftali, where the characters in Paul Chan's exhibition The Bather's Dilemma immediately confounded me with their physical and metaphorical contradictions.
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The PMI covering the bloc's dominant service industry confounded a forecast for a slight dip to 56.0, instead rising from November's 52.13 to 56.5, the highest since April 2011.
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Evans confounded everyone by standing in front of the southpaw Nogueira for three whole rounds doing nothing but tapping his lead hand and shooting jabs straight into his palm.
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Others, still peeved about Hillary's email server, confounded by her marriage, or bitter that Bernie Sanders lost the nomination, are voting by default and not pumped to actively help.
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The 2016 Race Donald Trump has confounded politicians, pundits and political scientists as he runs a most unconventional — and so far successful — campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination.
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In a vote that confounded opinion polls and was a disaster for President Juan Manuel Santos, Colombians narrowly rebuffed the pact on Sunday as too lenient on the rebels.
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While her story has made rounds (no pun intended) on the web, Mashable recently caught up with the teen, who confessed to to feeling confounded by the entire ordeal.
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Not only were protestors not allowed to proceed along the one block of Market Street to Super Bowl City, but southbound tourists were similarly confounded in leaving the event.
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"Quite honestly, I continue to be just confounded by the fact that as energy prices come down we're getting more and more negative about the growth outlook," she said.
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The consequences of the programme's shortcomings have confounded thousands, if not millions, of travellers, who can be stuck in the country's security lines for as long as 90 minutes.
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While events this year confounded a market narrative of zinc and lead transitioning from supply deficit to surplus, ILZSG's forecasts suggest the shift has simply been delayed not cancelled.
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As the story goes, January came to check out the course in the preceding weeks and was confounded by one tee shot after another that didn't present a target.
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In the meantime, child welfare experts and psychologists continue to be confounded by how to stop this horrific pattern, while aware of the holes in the nation's legal process.
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If you feel ashamed to be laughing, then Lonergan has got you exactly where he wants you—stirred and confounded, casting around for breaks in the cloud of sadness.
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They were doting but incurious parents, bewildered by her fame, and confounded by the fans, who kept turning up at their door or writing to them during Blondie's heyday.
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Roy Beck, president of NumbersUSA, a grassroots organization that seeks lower levels of immigration, said he's confounded by reports that Cissna may be removed from his post at USCIS.
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Home runs by Jose Reyes and Michael Conforto, who drove in three runs, helped the Mets solve Julio Teheran, the Braves starter who has confounded them in the past.
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But he was not always a reliable Republican vote, and sometimes in a career that stretched into a sixth Senate term, he confounded party leaders with his maverick stands.
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But the situation was confounded by an account from the sailors on the Kokuka, who said they saw "flying objects" before the attack, which contradicts the U.S. military's account.
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That potentially puts him on the path to making good on a campaign promise and take a step back toward the populism that confounded his political opponents in 2016.
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Republicans in particular, but Americans in general, are confounded by an unusual dynamic in health policy: The health care systems that spend the least rely on government the most.
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In other words, the literature on sitting is likely confounded by these socioeconomic factors that may help explain why some sedentary people have worse health outcomes than other sedentary people.
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Trump's departure from Washington comes at a time of increased pressure at home, and he is keen to show progress on a foreign policy issue that has confounded multiple predecessors.
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Tabby's Star, or KIC 8462852 as it was first identified in the Kepler space telescope database, has confounded astronomers since its unusual light curve was first spotted by citizen scientists.
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The narrative of steady progress that Obama did so much to articulate and encourage — and that Gore's movie echoes — has been, if not fatally wounded, at the very least confounded.
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Comedy king Jerry Lewis, whose manic style amused generations of moviegoers on both sides of the Atlantic, yet whose popularity often confounded critics, has died, his agent confirmed to PEOPLE.
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After Britain's referendum decision to exit the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, Fillon confounded predictions by winning the first round of the Republicains primaries.
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Arrieta settled in after allowing a two-run homer to Neil Walker in the first inning, tantalizing with curveballs on the fringes of the strike zone that confounded the Mets.
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Democrats-in-disarray is not some new political meme; it's a decades-old narrative, one that the party has confounded by continuing to exist, and even thriving for long stretches.
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Anybody wishing to understand the niceties of Operation Dynamo will be confounded, as will anyone expecting the sight of high-ranking strategists huddled around maps in low-lit situation rooms.
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Why this matters: Trump's foreign leader interactions — often improvised, often hot and cold, often disregarding diplomatic conventions and basic briefing materials — have confounded much of the administration's national security staff.
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That could easily be confounded by dozens of things — most obviously, people presumably sleep less because they're busier, which gets in the way of voting but also most other activities.
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But they also stand to reshape the competitive landscape through major acquisitions and score a win in an industry that has confounded the likes of Goldman Sachs and Warren Buffett.
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For one thing, they may help us understand why many products that debut to strong sales and positive customer feedback wind up tanking, a problem that has long confounded marketers.
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Despite having confounded his privileged peers by setting himself up as a private detective, Lenox is the son of a baronet and very rich, which makes him a prize indeed.
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Dillon challenged this in 2017, writing an open letter to the Television Academy about being confounded over whether to submit themselves for Emmy consideration as a supporting actor or actress.
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So it seems only reasonable to look for evidence that a Le Pen victory is being scripted somewhere in the empyrean, and that the experts will be confounded yet again.
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Social media is awash in critics who have seen the ad and are confounded by its aims, accusing Peloton of peddling negative body image, unchecked privilege, and gross marital dynamics.
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Even before he became president, the US confounded the world with its contradictions: liberal gun laws and outlandish gun crime; incredible wealth and disproportionate poverty; moonshot innovations and basic literacy issues.
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The terrain confounded soldiers during a prior, yearslong campaign against oil militants, who stopped bombing oil installations only after the government began paying them as part of a 2009 amnesty program.
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KIC 103, better known as Tabby's star, is a fairly standard star as far as most things go, but its strange behavior has infuriated and confounded astronomers over the past year.
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The self-declared democratic socialist confounded expectations that he was little more than a fringe candidate and mounted his own crusade against the political establishment that electrified the party's progressive base.
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Campaign insiders admit they were caught off guard not only by Trump's rise — which confounded political experts — but also by how much money Bush sucked up from the Republican donor class.
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Pineda's habit of hanging sliders — slightly spinning cookies that sat invitingly in the middle of the plate when he had two strikes on hitters — had confounded the pitching coach, Larry Rothschild.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The abrupt breakdown of summit talks between President Trump and North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, has confounded America's two largest allies in Asia, but for different reasons.
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But in the end, the prime minister confounded expectations suggesting that the country was ready for a change in course after six years of tumultuous leadership under the conservative political coalition.
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I've already caught him on several broadcasts, with the word "hero" running on the banner below the video of Mr. Langendorff respectfully "yes ma'aming" and "no sir-ing" the confounded reporters.
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Facing fourth-and-goal from the one-yard line, the Dolphins trotted out their field goal unit only to shift out into a wild formation that left the Eagles defense confounded.
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Lundqvist, who was out almost two months last season because of a vascular injury in his neck, returned after missing three games, but his performances since then alternately amazed and confounded.
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South African budget deficits as a percentage of GDP have confounded economists in the past two years with revenue shortfalls, while economic growth has consistently undershot forecasts in the past decade.
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The company's most advanced vehicles were still occasionally confounded by certain traffic situations, which suggests the tech — while incredibly advanced — was not quite ready for the public rollout Waymo was predicting.
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In December, President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team with a surprise decision to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, declaring that Islamic State had been defeated there.
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Trump, who has made immigration a top priority of his presidency, plans to push an issue that has long confounded Washington as he runs for reelection over the next nine months.
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I think people are confounded by how to grapple with our changing diversity, and they are desperate for someone who can give them a short answer to a long, complicated problem.
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Some donors quietly worry about how the cash-rich group is spending its money, confounded by how few tangible results the tens of millions it has pumped into the race have yielded.
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The late July announcement, made in a series of three tweets, surprised and confounded the Pentagon and left 0003,000 active-duty and reserve service members wondering if they still had a job.
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Young voters are notoriously less likely to show up at the polls than older ones, but they confounded conventional wisdom when they repeatedly answered Obama's call in primary elections and general elections.
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That trade war between the world's two largest economies has hurt markets worldwide and confounded U.S. allies, including Japan and the European Union, although those allies share U.S. concerns about Chinese practices.
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Analysts had been expecting a build of around 2.6 million barrels, but crude inventories confounded forecasts by falling for a fifth consecutive week, declining by 3 million barrels to 499.74 million barrels.
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Financial markets celebrated an election result that confounded opinion polls, finding "relief from the elimination of the threat of Labor's less business-friendly policies," according to Eleanor Creagh, economist at Saxo Bank.
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At least 21 U.S. diplomats in Cuba have become victims of mystery "health attacks" that have caused hearing loss and mild brain injury, per the Associated Press, leaving the U.S. government confounded.
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It is this shifting dynamic at the nickel raw materials stage of the supply chain that has confounded nickel bulls and kept the nickel price under sustained pressure so far this year.
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"It's a dream that has confounded generations of architects and developers," said Amanda Dameron, until recently the editor in chief of Dwell, a shelter magazine that is one of prefab's biggest proselytizers.
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Within a few years, denaturalization was being deployed against political subversives, most famously Emma Goldman, the anarchist and Lithuanian immigrant who for years had confounded efforts by federal officials to deport her.
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Sri Lanka's government confounded terrorism experts when they pinned the blame for Sunday's terror attacks, which killed more than 300 people, on a little-known and disorganized extremist group: National Tawheed Jamath.
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This confounded Twitter's efforts to police the network: On one hand, it was trying to fight abuse; on the other, it was verifying trolls who routinely directed their followers to harass people.
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The volatile indicator, which is often subject to revision, confounded expectations in a Reuters poll for a 0.9 percent rise on the month, data from the Federal Statistics Office showed on Tuesday.
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In announcing his plan, Mr. Trump became the third consecutive American president to be confounded by the conflict in Afghanistan, now the longest military operation in the history of the United States.
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The rise in high-rated euro zone yields fell short of recent highs, capped by memories of Britain's referendum on European Union membership in late June, when the result confounded the polls.
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The battered, lifeless body of JonBenét Ramsey was discovered in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado, mansion on Christmas Day, 1996 – and the case has confounded investigators and case experts ever since.
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Many Americans may be wondering if they should cancel their upcoming trips to the Caribbean paradise after the recent deaths of several tourists there have confounded authorities and set the nation on edge.
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Many nocturnal insects have exquisite night vision so the two researchers thought that perhaps the absence of visual cues within their flight simulator, which had been intentional, might actually have confounded their experiment.
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For decades, Saudi Arabia's declared oil reserves have confounded the industry; since 21980 they have remained suspiciously constant at around 21996bn barrels—a dozen times those of Aramco's nearest listed rival (see chart).
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He pointed to the large number of vacancies at the State Department as an explanation for the poor messaging, a situation that has concerned national security experts, frustrated lawmakers and confounded foreign diplomats.
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Some of this malaise has manifested socio-politically in a skeptical, even angry populism that has confounded political analysts (and Jeb Bush), but its individual effects appear to be personally devastating as well.
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Brittleness is the inability of a system to cope with surprises, and, as we apply computers to situations that are ever more interconnected and layered, our systems are confounded by ever more surprises.
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Overwhelmingly, international readers say they are transfixed by the unorthodox candidacy of Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate, and confounded by the strong emotions that Hillary Clinton evokes among many Americans, including Democrats.
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Having confounded Republican elites in the primaries, Mr. Trump did the same to the Democrats in the general election, repeating the judo move of turning the weight of a complacent establishment against it.
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Ali's credo in the ring was "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" and his dazzling hand and foot speed confounded Liston, as it would many bigger, more powerful opponents to come.
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Researchers were confounded because the baby seals they were studying would not eat, apparently because they had been separated from their mothers while still nursing and were not yet able to swallow fish.
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Twitter's previous inability to turn a profit or log consistent revenue growth had confounded investors given its ubiquitous media presence and popularity among celebrities, athletes and politicians such as U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Ramaphosa said his government was committed to "policy certainty and consistency", in contrast to Zuma, who was criticized for policy shifts and unpredictable cabinet changes that rocked domestic financial markets and confounded investors.
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Now everyone's asking the question -- has Trump confounded the pundits, has his bombast finally landed a knockout blow, or at the very least stunned his opponent into agreeing a face-to-face meeting?
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Even in the latest stages of my 20-plus hour playtime I was still confounded by the challenge of killing creatures that I'd been running into since the earliest parts of the game.
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The Tronc/Michael Ferro/Gannett hostile takeover saga riveted news industry attention in the spring, as Gannett, the U.S.'s largest newspaper company, found itself confounded in its effort to buy Tribune Publishing.
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French business activity confounded expectations in April by growing at the fastest pace in nearly six years, showing no signs of cooling down just days before the most uncertain presidential election in years.
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This is what I call "the pheromone hotbox," a space in which a biologically confounded process occurs as our pheromones interact (in a nonsexual way) to generate creativity through simultaneous trust and mischievousness.
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Fed Chair Janet Yellen has said she believes that inflation, which has confounded expectations this year by falling instead of rising, will rise back toward the Fed's 2-percent target over the medium term.
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U.S. real gross domestic product (GDP) confounded expectations in the first quarter to rise 3.2% on an annualized quarter-over-quarter basis, while unemployment recently dropped to 3.6%, its lowest reading in 50 years.
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In a development that so confounded Kissoun that he told me three times, on July 15, 2016, Tuktoyaktuk, on the coast just east of the delta, briefly boasted the warmest ocean beach in Canada.
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Election experts were baffled that Trump would spend valuable final hours there, one of five Sunday events, and the trip added to the confusion in a race that has confounded pundits at every turn.
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Trump's decision to withdraw troops from the Kurdish-led region, which confounded his own national security team, has also led to a revival in attempts at dialogue between the YPG and the Syrian government.
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The Sanders small donors, by contrast, have confounded the experts and cleansed our system by proving that there is a better and nobler way that is superior in theory and works brilliantly in practice.
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He is now facing four counts of premeditated murder, all related to a string of killings that gripped the Tampa, Florida, neighborhood of Seminole Heights with fear and confounded authorities for nearly two months.
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Opposition leaders who have counted on the U.S. government to apply sustained moral and economic pressure on Maduro have so far been silent about Trump's remarks and marchers seemed confounded by his military threat.
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Political Memo MIAMI — The early stages of Kamala Harris's presidential campaign have been defined by peaks and plateaus, moments of strength that have inspired supporters and others that have confounded even her closest allies.
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Those two visions of Congress's purpose (which the political scientist Daniel Stid labels "Wilsonian" and "Madisonian," respectively) generally point in opposite directions when it comes to strengthening Congress, but they are too often confounded.
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And just as I was feeling that, for all the wonderful speed of this genre, everything was too metrically regular, a number of solos confounded me, with effects of complexity and syncopation that astounded.
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And, as the study found, the ability to make investments is confounded even further because those same businesses are defaulting on their debts more often and are less attractive for the financing they need.
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Administration claims that the elimination of Soleimani, Iran's Middle East terror chief, sparked celebration in Iran were confounded by Tehran's orchestrating of Soleimani's funeral rites to launch a propaganda campaign to heal national divides.
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The fracture to the production of bitcoin provides a reminder of one reason why the decentralized digital currency has confounded regulation and acceptance by mainstream finance: Its fate remains tied to arcane technological factors.
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The fracture to the production of bitcoin provides a reminder of one reason why the decentralised digital currency has confounded regulation and acceptance by mainstream finance: Its fate remains tied to arcane technological factors.
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While his tenure at the UN was not without its controversies, Kofi Annan confounded expectations, and in 2001, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to both Annan and the United Nations.
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The fracture to the production of bitcoin provides a reminder of one reason why the decentralized digital currency has confounded regulation and acceptance by mainstream finance: Its fate remains tied to arcane technological factors.
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Weak economic data and a decision by the Bank of England to hold interest rates and cut its growth projections have confounded sterling bulls in the last month after a period outperforming other major currencies.
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However, he has brought thousands of new supporters to the party, confounded critics by running a much more successful election campaign last year than expected and has since tightened his control of the Labour apparatus.
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The statistical approach on offer—which the chief derided as "sociological gobbledygook" in the oral argument last October—simply wasn't enough to "solve the problem of partisan gerrymandering that has confounded the court for decades".
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And second, that trying to combine direct and parliamentary forms of democracy has so confounded Britain's usual political decision-making processes that the resulting impasse can be resolved only by going back to the people.
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U.S. President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team, including generals like Votel, with a surprise decision to withdraw the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, declaring that Islamic State had been defeated there.
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Analysts say that India's highly localized, fractured dairy industry confounded Danone, a company accustomed to the relatively more consolidated dairy industries of the U.S., where it goes by the name "Dannon," and its native France.
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Doom series co-creator John Romero took to Twitter on Friday with an exuberant congratulations for Zero Master, the YouTuber who discovered a secret unlock that's confounded Doom II fans for more than two decades.
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A Trump victory would come as a surprise, but investors were mindful of the precedent set by Britain's referendum on European Union membership in June, which confounded pollsters by delivering a shock vote for Brexit.
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The Devils were confounded by the Rangers' forecheck throughout the game and were only within striking distance thanks to Schneider's strong play, although Miller's goal was a long wrist shot that slipped between his legs.
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But celebrating by drunkenly balcony hopping is a surefire way to inspire boomers everywhere to shake their aged fists to the sky and cry "those confounded youths" over and over until the end of time.
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Steny Hoyer of Maryland -- repeatedly admitted he was "confounded" that opinion polls show majorities of Americans support several new restrictions on gun purchases, but that it hasn't become a major issue in national political campaigns.
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NARRATIVE BACK ON TRACK NEXT YEAR While events this year confounded a market narrative of zinc and lead transitioning from supply deficit to surplus, ILZSG's forecasts suggest the shift has simply been delayed not cancelled.
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While Russia had confounded those who predicted a group stage exit with resounding victories over Saudi Arabia and Egypt, there was still a question mark over how they would perform when they faced stronger opposition.
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"People at this point ought to be a little more optimistic about the future of Tesla because we've confounded the critics at every turn," Musk said moments after Tesla went public at $23 a share.
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The call confounded her, Ms. Corry said: not only had he misremembered the incident, which made her think there were other moments of misconduct, he also implied she had done something to invite his behavior.
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The mood is mirrored in the United States, where Donald Trump has confounded the political establishment by crushing rivals for the Republican presidential nomination with rhetoric that has been widely denounced as racist and divisive.
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English had been his worst subject in school, he said, and at first he was intimidated by his grandfather's novels, which have often confounded even committed Joyceans for nearly a century since "Ulysses" was published.
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The doctrine's growth in recent decades - often helped by charismatic televangelist pastors - has confounded classical theologians and some of the evangelical community who consider the "prosperity gospel" to be in direct opposition to the Bible.
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A State Department official said the action did not signal a change in policy or an official determination that Cuba was responsible for the illnesses, which have confounded American investigators trying to locate their cause.
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The doctrine's growth in recent decades - often helped by charismatic televangelist pastors - has confounded classical theologians and some of the evangelical community who consider the "prosperity gospel" to be in direct opposition to the Bible.
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The victory for "Black Panther" is a sign that it will enjoy broad support in this year's Oscars best pictures race, which has confounded experts with a strong field of contenders and no clear frontrunner.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's free-spending consumers again confounded warnings that June's Brexit vote would cause an immediate slowdown in the country's economy, driving robust growth in the final three months of 2016, data showed on Thursday.
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While he has confounded critics, analysts and pundits before, the reality is that the 20 million votes he got in the primaries and caucuses will be dwarfed by the fall turnout, which could reach 140 million.
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According to a recent report in The Information, Waymo's most advanced vehicles are still occasionally confounded by certain traffic situations, which suggests the tech — while incredibly advanced — is still not quite ready for the real world.
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And the rapid-fire design-and-production system that has allowed the Spanish giant to outpace rivals is now giving it a powerful platform to succeed online, an outlet that has confounded its lumbering rivals. on.wsj.
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It occurred nearly a month after President Donald Trump confounded his own national security team and allies with a surprise decision to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, declaring Islamic State had been defeated there.
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This conclusion is hotly contested by some of their colleagues, who say the research is confounded by the fact that the photos were uploaded by the users themselves and not taken in a neutral lab setting.
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But even this minor victory demonstrates the California Democrat is comfortable in her position to go toe-to-toe with a President who has confounded so many others who have found themselves at odds with him.
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It was also somewhat surprising that Tebow would want to return to New York after his experience with the Jets, who seemed confounded as to how to use him after they put him on the team.
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As much as I could reduce the moment to moment of Sunless Skies to a slow, top-down scroll through empty space… it was also a journey into a world that continually surprised and confounded me.
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The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University)Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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The period of personal anguish, self-reflection and humiliation that Hillary Clinton endured as she questioned whether to save her marriage after the Lewinsky saga meanwhile confounded her enemies as it stirred public empathy for her plight.
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The House That Will Not Stand likely confounded some theatergoers: The tone was deliberately hard to pin down, moving from bawdy comedy to heavy drama, with a recurring drumbeat infusing the proceedings with a sometimes overwhelming intensity.
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More importantly Bob's lighting message of 2018 turned out to be as profound as the one sent by John Lennon's first solo album when he confounded all expectations by a return to a simpler, more basic approach.
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From the campaign trail to Tucson to Aurora Obama's often demoralizing and politically radioactive experience with the politics of gun control started when he first set eyes on the White House and have confounded him ever since.
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And though we, like many, were perhaps a bit confounded by the strange, new Republican coalition that stormed Washington in late January, so too were attendees confused how anyone could be opposed to protecting animals from cruelty.
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That strategy was further complicated by questionable accounting and opaque financial reporting — SunEdison has received an inquiry from the Securities and Exchange Commission and a subpoena from the Justice Department — that confounded even experts in the field.
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The local prosecutors who attempted to lower Epstein's sex offender status in 2010 were confounded by the lack of charges into what was recorded in Palm Beach police reports, according to interviews with The Wall Street Journal.
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Anyone coming into "Love Beats Rhymes" expecting to find some continuity with 2012's "The Man With the Iron Fists," the prior and first feature film directed by the hip-hop luminary RZA, may well be confounded.
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Benjamin Netanyahu's victory in Israel in 2015, and Britain's Brexit vote and Mr. Trump's election, both in 2016, confounded pollsters' and pundits' predictions and have caused considerable analysis and soul-searching in the world of survey research.
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But the message is also provoking new doubts about the sincerity of Republican determination to help Dreamers, muddying an immigration debate that is at the center of the conflict and has confounded Washington for almost 20 years.
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President Trump could have confounded his critics, calmed markets and perhaps even outlined common cause efforts – including travel limitations – that he and his administration had agreed to during consultations with our NATO partners and the European Union.
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Many people, including Mesa, considered the run-off a certainty but Morales, who has governed Bolivia since 2006, confounded them by heralding his victory at a news conference and saying rural votes should help see him home.
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The group's shares were up by 23 percent at 21 GMT on Wednesday after Maersk Line confounded expectations of a loss at the container shipping business as the sector grapples with a downturn brought on by overcapacity.
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He's the inexplicable actor who confounded career diplomats and seemed to push an agenda that wasn't shared by the officials actually carrying out U.S. foreign policy — but often seemed aligned with Trump's own private views on Ukraine.
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The two deaths stunned the posh beachside community and initially confounded local police, but after a seven-week investigation, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department concluded that Zahau killed herself because she felt responsible for the boy's death.
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The adjustment is a response to the spread offenses that have proliferated in recent years and to mobile quarterbacks like Auburn's Cam Newton, Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel and Ohio State's Cardale Jones, who have most confounded Alabama.
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Since he became a point of national curiosity in 2014, Thug has confounded expectations over and over again, whether that has been through his wardrobe, his vocal approach and musical choices, or through his aversion to most press.
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It confounded people, largely because (1.) everyone from the major labels on down was expecting another Chance album, and (2.) Chance had been billing his live band as The Social Experiment, and Donnie Trumpet featured prominently in it.
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BMW has confounded its rivals by maintaining an image of luxury and exclusivity even as it has introduced an ever-broader range of entry-level cars at prices comparable with the top of the mass-market firms' ranges.
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These are the questions that have confounded filmmakers since they started trying to make this movie back in 2001, when Joel Silver, famed producer of the Matrix, secured the rights to bring the character to the big screen.
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Up until Friday, Australian health authorities had said fans were free to "go to the footy" and live their lives as normal, a stance that confounded many medical professionals amid a growing tally of infections across the country.
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The Shame Wizard, a new character for season 2, did his best to send each and every Big Mouth character down a shame spiral, though he was momentarily confounded and distracted by the shameless and dim Coach Steve.
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Since its release, Russia has dramatically confounded its critics, beating Saudi Arabia 5-0 and Egypt 3-1, earning itself a place in the knockout stage in an unexpected turn of events that has delighted the Russian public.
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His campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, said during a Thursday morning interview on CBS that she was "confounded" by Clinton's speech topic and then attacked the former secretary of State for not holding a press conference in 263 days.
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The lack of research to create a coherent explanation was further confounded by a reluctance on the part of some scientists and activists to perpetuate the dangerous myth of black women as sexually promiscuous — another holdover from slavery.
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Following North Korea's launch on Tuesday of an intercontinental ballistic missile, he also faces new pressure to act on a threat from Pyongyang that has long confounded American presidents, and that he has few appealing ways to address.
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"He has been an undisputed hero of the civil rights movement, a legislator of uncommon influence and power, and an aging icon whose felonious wife and sometimes-wandering pace have confounded his place in history," the editorial said.
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But I'm most confounded by the people who have profited off the mythology of kitchens as places where, as a famous chef once said, "conversation tends to center on" — to paraphrase — male genital proportions and preferred sexual acts.
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The Internet was largely confounded, and not just because of the cognitive dissonance of seeing an R&B legend serenade a presidential candidate in a milieu reminiscent of tearful rehab confessions or exclusive one-on-ones about one's sexuality.
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"When orcas die in marine parks and aquariums the response by the facilities is often one of being confounded or stunned," Lori Marino, the lead author of the study and a biologist at the Whale Sanctuary Project, told Gizmodo.
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Now, Trump faces a question that has confounded Republicans in recent years: if courts toss out Obamacare, how do you replace it with an alternative that expands coverage, cuts costs and keeps the law's most popular parts in place?
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Police commanders who had lost scores of men to Taliban bombs and ambushes over the years were confounded as carloads of armed Taliban fighters arrived at city gates, seeking to celebrate Eid in the open, with their sworn enemies.
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CAIRO — Libyan fighters aligned with the United Nations-backed unity government on Thursday battled their way toward the center of Surt, the Islamic State's coastal stronghold, in a rapid offensive that has confounded expectations and upended Western strategic calculations.
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As the comic interaction between the three Perrys (Madea is Brian's aunt), Ms. Davis and Patrice Lovely's constantly confounded Hattie heats up, the filmmaking improves to accommodate it, the editing gaining the assuredness to land every laugh line successfully.
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Many veterans are confounded to learn that the Defense Department, which covers service members while their status is still active military, provides infertility treatment at seven hospitals, without charge for those who need it because of service-related injuries.
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But for now, Mr. Trump's actions have united allies against the United States — not just because of policy but because of a personal style that has confounded and sometimes infuriated his counterparts, who never know quite what to expect.
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I threw up my hands, started texting colleagues who were also playing the game—one of whom expressed deep relief at learning someone else was also confounded—and started exchanging theories about things we could do in the game.
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Many longtime oil traders have found themselves confounded by sharp price moves that run counter to fundamental signals like the balance of supply and demand, stockpile levels and disruptions in oil-producing regions, The Wall Street Journal recently reported.
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The Interpreter WASHINGTON — President Trump, inspired by TV images of faraway suffering to launch missile strikes against Syria, may be about to discover a lesson that has confounded presidents for 25 years: American power can only do so much.
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California, the country's wealthiest and most populous state, also has the most homeless, an unremitting crisis that has confounded the state's political leaders for decades and exposed one of the most extreme manifestations of economic inequality gripping the country.
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The results confounded expectations for a third straight quarterly loss and offered the first green shoots for Thiam's wealth-management driven strategy, which has been hampered by tough financial markets, muddled communication and concerns over Credit Suisse's capital position.
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While Europe and its leaders are confounded by the waves of migrants in the warm southern months, no country is as exposed as Italy, with its southern islands, miles of coastline and proximity to the smuggling hub of Libya.
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The central bank confounded expectations for a rate increase at its July meeting, fuelling the belief it is under pressure from Erdogan, who has called interest rates the "mother and father of all evil" and frequently urges they be kept low.
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The project has faced numerous setbacks as mobile phone operators have lobbied to maintain what has been a significant source of revenue while the realities of a fragmented telecoms market have confounded politicians' efforts to do away with the charges.
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As the most exposed among the major British banks to any downturn in the British economy, with 97 percent of its business in the UK, Lloyds has confounded expectations that last year's vote to quit the European Union would squeeze profits.
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It was unclear what impact the blast might have on Trump's calculus after he confounded his own national security team with a surprise decision last month to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, declaring Islamic State had been defeated there.
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Ohtani confounded American expectations by coming to Major League Baseball at 23, instead of waiting for a bigger payday in two years, when his salary would not have been constrained by the league's international signing rules for players under 25.
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Winter rains that traditionally fell in mid-November came as late as the end of December in 265, part of a trend of erratic rains that has confounded farmers who are entirely reliant on rainfall because they lack irrigation systems.
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Instead, he noted that a solution to political gerrymandering "has confounded the court for decades" and recounted a quartet of cases since the 1970s in which the justices failed to come up with a viable standard for policing electoral lines.
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I know this franchise's whole "thing" is that it's kind of "bad" and nothing makes "sense" but never have I ever been as confounded as I was when caught sight of some of the decorating decisions made in the Aldovia palace.
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Although various groups are making efforts to reach consensus on the science and process of measuring air quality, they are confounded by these startups that believe (or their investors believe) their business depends on big data that is owned and protected.
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Boston Public Schools had been trying to change start times for decades but had been confounded by the optimizations and a way to improve the school schedule without tripling the costs, which is why it organized Transportation Challenge to begin with.
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Many U.S. lawmakers, Trump's fellow Republicans as well as Democrats, have been deeply concerned about Syria policy since December, when Trump confounded his own national security team and allies with a surprise decision to withdraw all 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria.
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In one of the most striking flourishes of the three-year Brexit drama, Johnson confounded his opponents on Thursday by clinching a new deal with the EU that had promised it would never reopen a treaty it agreed last year.
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The corporate exec who seemed completely confounded by the jungle in the first Jurassic World seems much more confident now that she's back – this time as part of an organization devoted to saving the dinosaurs from an impending volcanic eruption.
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It is also a sort of mocking reversal of the "innocents abroad" motif of such Henry James novels as "Daisy Miller" and "The Portrait of a Lady," in which fresh-faced, straightforward Yanks are confounded by the perilous subtleties of Europeans.
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It was an unusual show of solidarity by a television news industry that has profited handsomely from Mr. Trump's success, even as its journalists have been routinely taunted and confounded by a candidate with a penchant for lies and bullying.
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To the extent these awards are viewed as one of the bellwether for the Oscars -- despite a mixed track record on that score -- the surprising results at best brought a bit more clarity to some key races, but confounded others.
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Over dizzying months of busted conventions, political outrages and assaults on the normal protocol of the presidency, Trump has often confounded predictions that finally he would be forced to mitigate his approach inside America and toward the rest of the world.
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He added that he was confounded by American institutions that both failed to protect his son from bullying as a special education student, and later did not see routine arrests over almost two decades as a cry for a harsh sentence.
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The open field of contenders has also created a starkly confounded vibe from the previous week when Songbird, the immensely talented filly, ran her record to a perfect 10 for 10 with an effortless seven-length victory in the Alabama Stakes.
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Peter D. Feaver, a political science professor at Duke University, signed a letter from top Republican national security leaders objecting to Mr. Trump earlier this month and said he was confounded by the advisers that the candidate ultimately came up with.
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As Quartz notes, Rick and Morty's fanbase is considerably smaller in China than it is in the United States, which may provide one explanation into how utterly confounded people are that this sauce has caused mass rioting in the States.
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Automobiles, after the Model T's expansion of personal ownership, confounded the parameters of the amendment: a car would seem to be private property, but roads were public, and the conduct of cars—traffic, transport—was a matter of public concern.
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"This is somebody who's giving a revisionist version of history ... The president is confounded that this person is always able to divert the spotlight to him," White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said in an interview with ABC News on Monday.
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The liberalism of most American Jews has long confounded American Jewish neoconservatives like Norman Podhoretz, who asserts that it is illogical for American Jews to embrace the welfare state, and the taxes to pay for it, given their comfortable economic status.
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The region saw a jump in new cases on Thursday that confounded previous signs of a downturn there, but the local governor, Attilio Fontana, said the increase was the result of greater testing and predicted more encouraging data for Friday.
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In that defining moment of military strategy confounded by unpredictable weather and human chaos, soldiers from the U.S., Britain, Canada and other Allied nations applied relentless bravery to carve out a beachhead on ground that Nazi Germany had occupied for four years.
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Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old ManuscriptImage: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale UniversitySince its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, has confounded linguists and cryptographers.
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"If you compare male and female pain patients or cannabis-dependent users, any sex differences you find may be confounded by environmental factors such as social influences on medical or recreational drug use," says Tom Freeman, senior academic fellow at King's College London.
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If the inseparable pair have confounded all of us with their whirlwind romance, it's because their alleged relationship timeline doesn't make sense — unless you buy into the theory that they've been together for a while but can only now be public about it.
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As we collectively discover what an Aaron Tveit is and think about the fact that Vanessa Hudgens is playing Rizzo exactly ten years after High School Musical premiered, there is the comfort of knowing that everyone else with WiFi is equally confounded.
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Every time I thought I had worked out the relationship between supply and demand, quality and processing, the hierarchy of middlemen and the relative price of green and black vanilla, I found that a new factor – currency fluctuations, corruption, cyclones – confounded me anew.
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It's fitting that Jones has continued to taunt Cormier with crotch chops, and that Cormier has become confounded by the fans' rejection of him in favor of Jones, because a similar feud played out nearly two decades ago—in a wrestling ring.
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Anna Fox, seemingly estranged from her husband and young daughter, and living alone in a five-story brownstone in a gentrified Manhattan neighborhood, is a sophisticated addition to the sisterhood of impaired and befuddled female protagonists confounded by mysteries erupting in their lives.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was criticized on Tuesday by Israel's main government watchdog over what it said was a lack of preparation and cabinet consultation over a network of Hamas tunnels that confounded the military in the 2014 Gaza war.
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No. 10 Louisville's defense confounded Wichita State into 6-of-22 shooting from long range during a 33-52 win over the Shockers (5-1) in Thursday's semifinal round of the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament at Imperial Arena in Paradise Island, Bahamas.
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Mr. Tavares, whose company acquired Opel and its Vauxhall brand from General Motors earlier this year, had just brashly claimed that he would be able to succeed at the task that has confounded generations of G.M. managers — making a profit at Opel.
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Still, something looked very familiar as the Orioles, baseball's worst team, again confounded the Yankees, who needed a late rally to tie the score and 10th-inning home runs from Neil Walker and Luke Voit to finish with a 7-5 victory.
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Among them is a study of how to deter cyberattacks — an issue that has confounded the Pentagon, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, among others, and was the focus of extensive, if inconclusive, efforts by the Obama administration.
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The Mets' offensive malaise has confounded their coaches, who met again before Thursday's game following a series in which their club produced just four runs in three games against one of the worst teams in baseball, the Miami Marlins, and lost twice.
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Mr. Bannon has also questioned what the United States has gotten for the $850 billion in nonmilitary spending it has poured into the country, noting that Afghanistan confounded the neoconservatives in the George W. Bush administration and the progressives in the Obama administration.
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The relatively unknown White House budget official, whose scant record on consumer finance and banking issues has confounded Democratic critics, will assume control of a regulator that looks markedly different from the one CFPB Acting Director Mick Mulvaney took over in November 2017.
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Last year, after her three-hour set in Melbourne drew a mixed reaction, Kraviz posted a thorough analysis on Facebook, explaining precisely how she had used mischievous stylistic digressions and jarring tempo shifts to create a "wild, ravy mix" that confounded expectations.
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Handling falsehoods and 'alternative facts' Trump's unprecedented verbal attacks on the press, his chaotic management style and his assaults on the truth have often confounded his own advisers, placing some members of his beleaguered team in the position of explaining the President's outright falsehoods.
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According to Nadella, bots are the next applications – and they make using technology to interact with businesses and services easier for many users who are confounded by the numerous mobile apps available today, or who are frustrated by navigating the endless sea of websites.
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A "GET BREXIT DONE" ELECTION Johnson confounded some of his critics by emerging last week with a deal with the EU, which differs from an agreement reached by his predecessor, Theresa May, mainly over how it handles the land border of British-ruled Northern Ireland.
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That sense of suburban sprawl as a repository for an outdated American dream haunts del Toro's winsome creature feature very effectively; it also compelled and confounded directors George Clooney and Alexander Payne, both of whom made suburb-centric, award-season hopefuls starring Matt Damon.
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To get there, however, Trump will have to navigate the greatest perils in U.S.-Iranian relations in recent memory – something he has done so far with a military restraint that has confounded his critics and gained him praise for "prudence " even from Iran's foreign minister.
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The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States confounded that process even more, throwing into question many aspects of the deal that previously seemed settled, including who will lead the industrialized nations of the world in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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St-Pierre confounded Koscheck with variation in timing and cadence: a thrusting of the lead shoulder would have Kos reaching blindly with both hands, and when he realized he had fallen victim to a deception, he flapped wildly to get back to his guard.
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The jet has been a labor of love for Fujino, who confounded industry colleagues with the craft's engineering masterstroke: engines mounted on the wings, not the fuselage, which reduces cabin noise and makes space for a full-sized washroom, a first in its segment.
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Related: Donald Trump Just Referenced His Penis Size in a Nationally Televised Debate But one of the fundamental aspects of Trump's campaign — which has confounded political pundits to no end — has been his ability to find support across seemingly contradictory pockets of the American electorate.
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This is what has confounded me most about America in the time I have been here: The fear of being labeled with a disparaging term — often simply for articulating a perspective that does not align with liberal political values — causes many to remain silent.
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"The Yards" (2000), which confounded everything you've heard about the curse of the sophomore work, was more adventurous, travelling as far as the Bronx, but the third film, "We Own the Night" (19943), kicked off in Brooklyn, once again, and could hardly tear itself away.
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Mr. Glover's tweet thread was a remarkable way to shed a light upon industry drama that does not often reach social media, a public statement in the form of a puzzle in the form of a script that both confounded and intrigued his fans.
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BEIJING — The State Department has evacuated at least 11 Americans from China after abnormal sounds or sensations were reported by government employees at the United States Consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou, officials said, deepening a mystery that has so far confounded investigators.
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Many of the world's most powerful economic policymakers are now taking seriously the possibility that the first of those facts is a cause of the second — and that the growing concentration of corporate power has confounded the efforts of central banks to keep economies healthy.
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Still, they remain confounded by Mr. Trump — especially his recent claims that they are attempting to interfere in the midterm elections — and they still feel burned by the president's rejection of a steel deal negotiated last year by his commerce secretary, Wilbur L. Ross.
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Barnett Newman and, later, Agnes Martin would use stripes to paint purely abstract works that confounded viewers' perception — whereas for Michel Parmentier, the severest of the Conceptual abstract painters of late-6393s Paris, thick bands of red served his political resistance to visual pleasure.
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But Democratic organizers and operatives throughout Iowa, especially the northwest part of the state where the most concentrated pockets of Latino voters live, say that efforts like these have confounded candidates for decades and are likely to do the same to candidates in 2020.
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The inclusion of Chad, a key counterterrorism partner for the U.S. in the fight against Boko Haram and ISIS, has confounded experts and former policymakers alike who say the country appears no more dangerous than others in the region and is vital to American interests.
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Beijing was again the epicentre of unease as the People's Bank confounded analysts by guiding the yuan's midpoint rate sharply stronger, a move that might calm concerns about a competitive devaluation but only added to market confusion as to Beijing's ultimate intent on its currency policy.
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Even as machines known as "deep neural networks" have learned to converse, drive cars, beat video games and Go champions, dream, paint pictures and help make scientific discoveries, they have also confounded their human creators, who never expected so-called "deep-learning" algorithms to work so well.
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Taylor's experience is by no means easier than that of the women on the show ("You skinny fucking freak!" a finance bigshot spits at them at one point), but it's different, in that so many of their colleagues are confounded about what biases to bring to bear.
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But a campaign initially dismissed as a joke -- The Washington Post's Dana Milbank promised Thursday to honor his vow to eat his column in penance -- confounded the pundits to such a degree that all bets are off about how the rest of the 2016 campaign might unfold.
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Then, the grassroots anti-establishment movement confounded the establishment by gaining 25 percent of the national vote, the largest amount for a single party in Italy and above that of its coalition partner Lega (with 25 percent) which was then part of a right-wing coalition.
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China was again the epicentre of unease as the People's Bank confounded analysts by guiding the yuan's midpoint rate sharply stronger, a move that might calm concerns about a competitive devaluation but only added to market confusion as to Beijing's ultimate intent on its currency policy.
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"I still have a hard time understanding that there are Jewish Republicans," Lueck says of Flo, who further confounded the artist by asking if she could deliver a message to the candidate, and endeared herself by driving Lueck to see Binghamton's ornate and defunct Amtrak station.
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Nora's presence was so often confounded by the things we know about her — the loss of her family and her inability to really deal with that fact — and less by who she really is, because we never got to know the Nora who wasn't upended by grief.
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Douglas Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University who edits a blog on marijuana law, policy and reform, said that even our knowledge about the way people drive when high is confounded by the reality that marijuana was illegal when some of that data was collected.
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TORONTO/OTTAWA, May 2 (Reuters) - The funding crisis at mortgage lender Home Capital may spark a welcome cooling in Canada's housing market and take pressure off policymakers confounded by the hot market - as long as the crisis does not turn into contagion, analysts said on Tuesday.
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She's always been inspired by the way that the opposite sex dresses, especially those closest to her: her grandfather, a bow tie devotee, left behind his collection, and her father, who always wore khakis, was confounded when she wore jeans as a young girl in Atlanta.
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It's a hard question to answer, one confounded by the thousands of strange and unique levels generated by humans using Super Mario Maker —an official game that allows players to make their own Super Mario levels —and machines who learned how to make Super Mario Bros.
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A disciple of her father's straight-talk approach, Ms. McCain has long confounded Republicans who say they cannot easily suss out her beliefs, and she has frustrated Democrats who want to believe that she is secretly one of them — a sentiment that only grew on Saturday.
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At the same time, the behavior of what you might call "normie" Republicans — not Very Online right-wingers or MAGA populists but longtime Fox News and talk-radio consumers — suggests that any such conservative mind-set is easily confounded by other factors, partisanship chief among them.
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At the same time, the behavior of what you might call "normie" Republicans — not Very Online right-wingers or MAGA populists but longtime Fox News and talk-radio consumers — suggests that any such conservative mind-set is easily confounded by other factors, partisanship chief among them.
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Mr. Trump, staring down a high-profile defeat on an issue that has confounded him and defied Republican consensus, told the party's senators they must not leave Washington without acting on a measure to roll back Mr. Obama's health law and replace it with something better.
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VanderMeer began to publish regularly with genre magazines and presses where his work was something of an outlier: surreal, Borgesian screeds and offbeat fantasy tales that confounded some fantasy readers because, even though they were set in otherworldly, imaginary places, nothing particularly fantastical ever happened there.
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The intensity of voter feeling about the President does give him some hope, however, as it raises the prospect that he could defy precedent and recreate that feverish support among the GOP grass roots that confounded pollsters and resulted in his shock victory two years ago.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It promised to be the next great shale play, but an oil-and-gas-rich area of central and south Oklahoma has confounded many of the producers lured there, with one of its biggest champions warning that its business may struggle to survive.
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Lebanon has some of the world's worst debt and balance-of-payments ratios, and its ability to dodge financial disaster has for years confounded critics, whose warnings of debt defaults, balance of payments crises and a collapse of the pound currency, have all failed to materialise.
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In 2005, she defended her friend Roman Polanski (who had directed her in his 1968 film Rosemary's Baby) in a libel trial — a fact that confounded some, given that Polanski had been living in France since 22017 after fleeing the US following being charged with child rape.
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Obama's swagger Obama has confounded the lame duck label that haunts second-term presidents, has seen major initiatives like his opening to Cuba and nuclear deal with Iran come to fruition in the last year, and his approval ratings recently topped 50% for the first time in years.
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NEW YORK, June 13 (Reuters) - It promised to be the next great shale play, but an oil-and-gas-rich area of central and south Oklahoma has confounded many of the producers lured there, with one of its biggest champions warning that its business may struggle to survive.
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New advances are taking automation to the highest end of human endeavors, offering scientists a shot at some of the most intractable problems that have confounded them — and along the way tipping a global balance to give upstarts like China a more level playing field in the lab.
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"I think this after-market performance that you're seeing from Micron will confound people, and has confounded people that with negative prints, a lot of these stocks have continued to go up," Manish Nigam, Asia-Pacific head of technology research at Credit Suisse, told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Thursday.
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" Commentators immediately cited Jean Valjean, the Victor Hugo character who was sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread, and of whom Hugo wrote: "There is a point at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables.
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But my dad's independent streak was strong, and he simultaneously impressed and confounded the assisted living staff by calling the town's dial-a-ride service nearly every night to take him to the local martini bar, where he talked sports and politics with the bartenders and other regulars.
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The need to take the National Front seriously was made clear in 2002, when Ms. Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, shocked the country and confounded pollsters by making his way into a runoff for the presidency at the expense of a sitting prime minister, Lionel Jospin.
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Indeed, we rely on referential descriptors when trying to communicate our pain: it feels as if … Part of what Heyman's paintings accomplish is to point to the instability of language and the sign, and how easily communication is confounded, whether intentionally or through the very impossibility of conveyance.
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In 2009, Hilton Als wrote in the New Yorker about the ways O'Connor's work's confronted and confounded the norms of her readers: Her black characters are not symbols defined in opposition to whiteness; they are the living people who were, physically at least, on the periphery of O'Connor's own world.
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The resilience has confounded the warnings of former finance minister George Osborne, one of the leading voices in the defeated "Remain" campaign to keep Britain in the EU, who said in May that house prices would fall by between 10 and 18 percent if the country voted to leave the bloc.
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The isosceles triangle he has formed with established stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook confounded the San Antonio Spurs in the second round and has confused the Warriors, who trail, 3-2, in the best-of-seven series after staving off elimination Thursday with a 24-22006 victory at home.
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Gowdy, a reliable Republican partisan who led the House's Benghazi investigation in the run-up to the 2016 election, has confounded expectations with his willingness to defend special counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI, culminating in his latest comments undercutting Trump's claims of the FBI placing spies in his campaign.
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Mass protests in 2011, during the Arab Spring, forced him to step down as president, but he confounded those who thought he might retire quietly by returning to the country to rally his followers and forge an improbable alignment with the Houthis, before breaking with them just days before his death.
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Made in the past couple of years, the collages offer yet another view (actually, more like two or three) of someone who has delighted and confounded his readers and, more recently, viewers, since the publication of Some Trees (1956), which was chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
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Around the time of her first record—released as Chaleur Humaine in France and Christine and the Queens in English-speaking countries—she took to performing in suits, a non-conformist choice that confounded some and resulted in her patiently, repeatedly explaining the very concept of pansexuality to members of the press.
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The switch, which the administration disclosed in late March, has confounded many people in Washington, even within the Republican Party, who came to realize that health insurance and a commitment to protecting the A.C.A. were among the main issues that propelled Democrats to a majority in the House of Representatives last fall.
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As the United States continues to address an outbreak of the novel coronavirus that has confounded governments across the world, our already-frayed health care system is quietly incubating a deadly disease of its own: An acute nursing shortage that will undermine patient safety and confidence at a critical time for public health.
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The President's plans for a vast American parade were confounded by spiraling costs and the logistical reality that the tracks of armored tanks would plow up Washington's roads -- the tanks in Trump's July Fourth display will be on a static display -- but he never let go of the idea of a big patriotic party.
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Facing increasing political and legal pressure at home over investigations into Russian meddling in the 13 U.S. election, Trump has devoted significant time and effort to trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for promises of peace and development, a foreign policy goal that has confounded multiple predecessors.
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The Voynich Manuscript edited by Raymond Clemens; introduction by Deborah Harkness The Voynich Manuscript was originally discovered by a rare book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich, who found it in the library of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The volume has confounded scholars for decades with its indecipherable text, and strange and fantastic illustrations.
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Read more:Los Angeles Rams completed a brilliant double-reverse flea-flicker that confounded the Bengals for a 65-yard touchdownThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers were robbed of potential game-winning touchdown by a premature whistleLeBron James has multiple DVRs and says he can watch every NBA game at once so he can study his opponents
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A group of Democratic National Committee officials approved and then withheld from their own leadership a proposal to carve out a generous exit package for the party chair, Tom Perez, and two top lieutenants, leaving Democrats confounded over the weekend by the optics and timing of the decision on the eve of the presidential primary.
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On Instagram, though, there was but one moment that captivated and probably confounded those in attendance was the finale: As the show drew to a close, Lagerfeld arrived on the Chanel launchpad to take his bow and pushed the button for lift-off — which, to the surprise of nearly everyone, actually fired up the enormous space rocket.
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And now, delivering a searing performance of a man torn between his intense desire to serve justice as he sees it and being ostracized in the eyes of his own black community, all the while being taunted, confronted and confounded by onetime role model Johnnie Cochran, Brown's star is shining just as brightly as any of his co-stars.
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This series of new restorations is bookended by two weeklong runs, "La Collectionneuse" (1967) — technically the third tale but the first to run longer than an hour — in which two friends staying at a country house are confounded by their fellow guest, Haydée (Haydée Politoff), a flirtatious young woman whom they judge to be a collector of men.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's unconventional approach to foreign policy has confounded Republicans, who question his national security acumen and argue he would make the country less safe.
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Like his narrator, Mr. Adjei-Brenyah had to contend with ravenous shoppers during the holiday season, back when he worked in a clothing store at the Palisades mall in West Nyack, N.Y. "I've seen somebody step on someone else to get the jeans on a Black Friday," he said, still sounding confounded by the behavior he witnessed.
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Franke-Ruta notes that the shaky reliability of oral history has confounded other public figures — like Madeleine Albright, who didn't know until reporters discovered it that her own parents had escaped the Holocaust, or Marco Rubio, who mistakenly believed that he was the "son of exiles" from Castro's Cuba when his parents actually came over before Castro took power.
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Lola Créton, known in the United States mostly for her work in Mia Hansen-Love's "Goodbye First Love" (2012) and Olivier Assayas' "Something in the Air" (2013), gives a fierce performance in "Bluebeard" as Marie-Catherine, the title character's clever young wife who is confounded by the temptation of a secret chamber in their shared castle.
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"We are a little confounded about why suddenly New York would turn around and take a two-by-four to New Jersey," said Representative Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat who represents a slice of New Jersey suburbs near Manhattan and plans to introduce a bill he hopes will pressure New York to give his state's drivers a break. Gov.
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As I looked through it I realized it was in some language that I didn't understand, but I liked the cover and it was only a dollar so I threw it in my suitcase and somehow it ended up in the studio, and every once and awhile someone grabs it and they're confounded by that we can't really read it.
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More from The New York Times: Transcript: Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views Top Experts Confounded by Advisers to Donald Trump Donald Trump's Secret Weapon: Blue-State Voters Mr. Trump also said he would seek to renegotiate many fundamental treaties with American allies, possibly including a 56-year-old security pact with Japan, which he described as one-sided.
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THE most instructive part of Nikki Haley's memoir, "Can't is Not an Option"—beyond the fact of its publication, a tell-tale sign of national ambitions—is not the oft-cited anecdote about a beauty pageant in Bamberg, South Carolina: Mrs Haley and her sister, the daughters of Indian immigrants, confounded the judges' plan to pick black and white winners, and were disqualified.
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It is the great luck of the Salafi-jihadis that that their Islamic mythology should hold appeal for these men at the terrible margins; it is their great luck, too, that European societies should be so confounded by these men, torn between their loathing for them and a buried guilt for the outrages to which they, in their marginal lives, are exposed.
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But if others were confounded or driven crazy by the fast conditions and the tumultuous 16-acre Flushing Meadows site — "the noise, it is constant," complained Guillermo Vilas, the defending champion who lost in the fourth round here — Connors, 26, was in his element amid the persistent drone of La Guardia Airport jets and the rumble of nearby rail traffic.
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Rather than being confounded by the experience of Judd's "Specific Objects" or overwhelmed by the environments of James Turrell, one must spend time with Corse's illusive paintings, which evolve depending on whether the paint applied to the canvas is thick or thin, whether the work is in natural or artificial light, and whether you are close or far away from the painting itself.
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More famous than many of the drivers who have come and gone over the years, he has become known to millions of fans as Bernie or Mr E. If the end of his reign was often foretold, time and again he confounded his critics — a classic example being the bribery trial in Germany that ended in 2014 after he agreed to pay $100 million as a settlement.
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As I traveled to cities from the far north to the far south, I discovered different dialects and accents that then confounded the sounds I had been learning, so that in the end I am left with the same feeling I had looking up at the stars from the Kaluts in the Lut desert: that there is so much to learn, so much I will never know.
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In it, a woman in a sleeveless fuchsia dress, with a disposition that suggests she has never been confounded by a teleconferencing system, looks into the camera and wonders if anyone watching — by which she means anyone female — has ever gone out with the intention of having one or two glasses of wine but instead ended up having a third or fourth and regretting it.
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But now they, too, need to reckon with a reality that has confounded every kind of Republican reformer since Barack Obama was elected: Our politics are probably too polarized, our legislative branch too gridlocked, and the conservative movement too dysfunctional and self-destructive to build a new agenda from the backbenches of Congress up, or even from the House speaker or Senate majority leader's office.
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When Mr. Trump was in Japan over the summer for the G20 summit, he drew a contrast between the cleanliness of Japanese cities and the filth and the number of homeless people on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles, saying it was a problem that started two years ago even though it has been an issue that has confounded generations of California leaders.
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And, as a brochure titled "A Shelby County Masterpiece," handed to visitors on entering, attests, Sidney has long been aware that it's lucky to have the building, which, as in Newark, sits across from the county courthouse where Sullivan, in the initial planning stages, confounded the bank board by spending two days smoking cigarettes and staring at the vacant lot, well before a line had been set on paper.
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Read more:Bill Belichick would fly coach and put veteran players in first class, and one former Patriot said it was a huge factor in how players judge head coachesTyson Fury teased a potential MMA debut and Conor McGregor wants to train himThe Tampa Bay Buccaneers were robbed of potential game-winning touchdown by a premature whistleLos Angeles Rams completed a brilliant double-reverse flea-flicker that confounded the Bengals for a 65-yard touchdown
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His double shot of "earned media" from the NPI conference called to mind how the Trump campaign, back on August 31, confounded the press by conducting a genial photo-op for the candidate in Mexico City in a joint appearance with Enrique Peña Nieto, president of the country Trump had promised to wall off—only to see the candidate turn around and hold a rally in Phoenix later that evening filled with anti-immigrant rhetoric and tropes.
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